The Farm Bill recently passed by this lame-ass congress. Does it actually help the family farmer? Are there any "Family Farmers " left ?. All I know is that the richest coorporate farms are raking in huge government checks that THEY DO NOT NEED TO OPERATE!!!!.
it can not be that hard to figure out who actually needs the money and who doesn't. If you are the richest person in the state do you need a million dollars to sustain your farming operation? Granted there are loopholes and qualifications that must be met and paper work that must be submited.
I spoke with one farmer who said "You do have to wade through about 40 hours of paper work to get it...but 100,000 for doing nothin'? I'll fill out the papers".
You can not tell me that something can not or should not be done.....I am all for helping the farmer. I live in an ag. based economy...I want them to do well...but give me a fricking break.
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Yeah! Welcome to the blogsphere!
I wrote (and never sent) a letter to the editor on this subject. It goes something like this:
When the government gives a single mother money to help her support her family after her husband left her, we call that welfare. Politicians and the public rally to put a stop to it, calling it "welfare reform".
When the government gives farmers money, it's called "subsidies". North Dakota elects Democratic congress people to keep the gravy train of subsidies coming in every year.
I support these subsidies. I think farmers are hard-working people, the global agricultural markets are complex and the government should play a role in keeping our farmers and our farming infrastructure stable.
Why shouldn't the government play a role, for economic reasons if not humanitarian ones, in helping a single mother become a successful tax payer again? Why does her support end, regardless of her circumstances, but help for the farmers comes every year, on schedule, delivered on a platter by the North Dakota congressional committee.
I challenge North Dakotans, a people who have never cast an electoral vote for a Democratic presidential candidate, to examine this uncomfortable double-standard. It's pork and waste when it helps other people, it's beneficial subsidies when it helps you. You're a Democrat when the money comes to you but a Republican when it comes from you. Your undying support for the GOP is not true to North Dakota values.
Apparently Corporate welfare is perfectly acceptable, while individual welfare drives some folks insane...the folks I know that receive money DO NOT NEED IT to function...but they are entitled to it, so they take it.
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